Well if you've already proven it! Why didn't you say so?
So I can put you down as a no for energy independence if it requires actually using domestic... you know... energy.
There is a montage of president's back to Ford stating almost verbatim the same words about oil independence. This might make good fodder for bickering but without knowing or acknowledging artificial scarcity, big oil in high places and the vast untapped resources of Alaska besides oil, a full spectrum observation or analysis doesn't exist in a discussion like this. NASA completely disproved the green movements claim of the planet getting hotter. What it is doing is experiencing more extremes and going through a kind of equilibrium. It sent Al Gore further into the stratosphere of bizarroland. The graph that he showed in An ICT was upside down. The space shuttles and rockets do more damage to the atmosphere than the bullshit the green movement scam pushes.